#hyperpop

#hyperpop

Michael Bublé and Mariah step aside, there's a new festive icon competing for the coveted Christmas number one spot on the chart. But Denise Welch also has competition from Kylie Minogue 's single, "XMAS." It's really a battle of the gay icons this year. Promotion for the track, a collaboration with chocolate brand Celebrations, sees Welch referencing Kylie in an all-red ensemble. She also dances around the booth with her fluffy scarf and oversized sunglasses in the song's video.

Every now and again, a scene seems to be bubbling up out of nowhere, and all of a sudden, everyone is talking about it. That is what's happening with the U.K. underground right now. Fakemink is the rapper that you need to know from that world. You might have seen him popping out at Wireless Festival with Drake. This my dog right here.

When Angel and Lulu Prost were kids in St. Louis, Missouri, they played in a family band at church on Sundays. Now the twin tricksters make music so aggro it could jumpscare the pope. Frost Children's new album, SISTER, is packed with tracks that sound devised in a VO2 max lab to push people into excruciating physical exertion. This is a duo who grew up on brostep and Krewella and have spent their career shitting on taste boundaries.

Everyone is trying to out-scream and out-diva each other at AG Cook's sold-out Brooklyn Paramount show. Midway through his Friday-night DJ set for his Britpop 25 tour, the producer and moptopped dungeon master of the hyperpop universe has put on his Von Dutch remix, a standout single from last summer's Brat invasion that brings pop princesses Charli xcx and Addison Rae together for some prima donna repartee atop a distorted, industrial production.

SOPHIE's debut project, PRODUCT, released in 2015, significantly catalyzed hyperpop's mainstream rise, bridging the internet subculture with widely recognized pop acts.

Everywhere you looked, it was texture, attitude, and deliberate styling. Chain belts, devil horns, sunglasses worn well into the evening - it was less street style and more like street theatre.

Join two of the Bay's trendiest QTBIPOC collectives for QUEEN OUT, a hyperpop-adjacent queer club night featuring trailblazing Black+Queer talent.